It’s 7:00 a.m. and I’m watching the sun come up over Manhattan from my room in the W Hotel in Hoboken New Jersey. I’m here for meetings later with my publisher and even though I’m not in New York proper, I have the perfect view of it all.

Directly across the river from my room stands the Empire State Building and the rest of the city that symbolizes all that is possible. And it’s now that I’ve truly come full circle.

As I wrote in a previous blog this stretch of my journey began with the tragedy of 9-11, but this writing isn’t about that. Nor is it a ‘look at me and how successful I am’ blog that are so prevalent across the web these days. I have by no means ‘made it’ and still have so much farther to go.

But I’m here right now at this crazy moment in time asking why and how did a Cajun boy from Louisiana sitting atop his 1972 Honda 100 end up here? 

WHY – because I’ve always been a dreamer that asked the question, “Why not me?”  Indeed all of the self help books tell you to visualize but in order to visualize, you first have to dream. What most don’t tell you is that the dream doesn’t have to be big; it only has to be important – to you.

When first straddling that Honda 100 I never envisioned sitting in this hotel room gazing at New York three weeks after my book has come out. Back then my dream was to graduate high school, ride that puppy to New Orleans, find a job and place to live…which I did, but on a Honda 350. 

Which leads me to the HOW.  Just like taking that ride into New Orleans, I dreamed one step at a time.  Yes, there was the overall dream of financial success, travel, meeting cool people and finding the perfect Margarita.  But there are so many intermediate dreams that we must lock into and not gloss over as we look over the horizon to the big one.  (I will find that perfect Margarita one day)

The problem, as I see it, isn’t that people aren’t dreaming, it’s that they tend to discount their smaller dreams as unimportant and as such, overlook them. But accomplishing one dream allows you to dream about the next with greater clarity.  And it’s within this state of clear that you figure out how to achieve that dream. It creates a wonderful domino effect that boosts your ability to dream more while honing the skills needed to achieve them. 

So, dreaming about making just a few more dollars or buying that second hand car doesn’t make you a loser compared to those who are dreaming of millions and a new Mercedes. Instead each achievement makes you stronger and more confident as you get that raise in pay and buy that new old car.

And then one day you find yourself sitting in a hotel room looking at the Empire State Building knowing that it’s been a long and twisty ride with many bumps and bruises along the way.  And that you wouldn’t have ridden it any other way. 

Dwain – The BusinessBiker

As always – these are just my thoughts on the matter, I could be wrong.  So, if you disagree or simply want to pile on, please do so either here on the BLOG or email me directly at Navigator@BikersGuidetoBusiness.Com  I look forward to hearing from you. www.bikersguidetobusiness.com

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